Comcast Innovation and Technology Center

Comcast Technology Center
The Comcast Technology Center under construction in December 2016
General information
Status	Under construction
Type	Hotel, restaurant, office, parking garage, retail, television studios
Location	1800 Arch Street, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates	39°57′18″N 75°10′12″W / 39.955°N 75.170°W / 39.955; -75.170
Estimated completion	2018
Cost	US$1.2 billion
Owner	Comcast Liberty Property Trust
Height	1,121 feet (342 m)
Technical details
Floor count	60
Floor area	1,329,989 sq ft (123,560.0 m2)
Design and construction
Architect	Foster and Partners Kendall/Heaton Associates
Developer	Liberty Property Trust
Structural engineer	Thornton Tomasetti

The Comcast Technology Center, formerly known as the Comcast Innovation and Technology Center, is a building under construction in Philadelphia. The 60-floor building, with a height of 1,121 feet (342 m), will be the ninth-tallest building in the Western Hemisphere (the eight taller ones are all in the United States), and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere outside of Manhattan and Chicago (and therefore the tallest building in Pennsylvania). It is adjacent to the Comcast Center, the headquarters of Comcast Corporation.

Construction began in summer 2014 and is expected to be completed in 2018.

The architect is Lord Norman Foster, with interior design by Gensler. The L.F. Driscoll Company is the construction contractor.

The view from the top will be more than 40 miles (60 kilometers) in clear weather.

The building will consist primarily of office space and the new Four Seasons Hotel Philadelphia, which was formerly nearby. It will also include television studios, a retail mall, a parking garage, and a top-floor restaurant. The entire project contains over 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m²). The property will be co-owned by Comcast and Liberty Property Trust, and has an estimated cost of $1.5 billion.

Comcast's NBC station WCAU (channel 10), along with Telemundo's WWSI (channel 62) have announced plans to move from Bala Cynwyd to occupy the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth floors of the building with at least three control rooms and three studios, all located on the thirteenth floor, as well as office space.